retrieve
verb (used with object)
to recover or regain.
are retrieving
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present progressiveof retrieve.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Chatbots are retrieving information available online and give answers even if they aren’t correct, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025
Election teams are retrieving the printers from voting locations.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2022
Only Lucy Nichols is no longer a member of the Sisters of St. Francis, and the person she and Jack are retrieving is not dead.
From Time Magazine Archive
True, sire, true," replied Diana of Poitiers, "your armies are retrieving all that was once lost.
From Corse de Leon, Volume I (of 2) or, The Brigand; a Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
